David Finch Quotes
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.
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I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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I am the face and ambassador of sambo. The organization I'm working is trying really hard to make sambo a sport on the Olympian level.
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I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'
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They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
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That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
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I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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I'm really very visually attracted to Wonder Woman. She just looks great on the page.
